Noten von Komponistinnen für Frauenchor: Brillante Vokalwerke

Commissioned by the Alliance for Arts and Understanding for the 2004 Alliance World Festival, with uplifting text by Minnie Louise Haskins - Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown -...

As plentiful as the grass that grows, the sands on the shore, the dew in the meadow, or the wind across the moor...so shall grace and blessings be. This beautiful Irish blessing text is creatively set...

The SATB setting of Non Nobis Domine has become one of Rosephanye Powell's most celebrated works. The driving energy and ostinato rhythms are classic elements from Rosephanye's pen. Her husband Willia...

This collection of original songs and arrangements of folk tunes provides a long-needed source of a cappella contest literature for the developing choir. Quality texts, careful attention to range, tes...

This a cappella original work is both accessible and appealing for developing choirs and ideal for contest and festival repertoire.

Set to the majestic This is the day that the Lord hath made psalm text, this highly flexible a cappella work is especially good for a multi-choir festival or concert. Short and accessible, the work op...

Jane and Cassandra Austen wrote these poems along with their mother. They were the result of a parlor game in which each line ended in a rhyme with the word 'rose'. Canadian composer Eleanor Daley sco...

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

This contemporary original is an accessible concert or contest work for young choirs and features a strong rhythmic drive with contrasting mixed meter sections.

Originally written for SATB, this hymn to the 'Queen of the Heavens' is a glorious work, replete with dramatic changes of mood and texture. The majestic chords of the opening bars quickly give way to...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

Cecilia McDowall's fresh and appealing style is amply displayed in this cycle, subtitled 'Three Shakespeare Songs'. In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and McDowall's response encompasses a flee...

I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with flowing and cascading lines in ever...

Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients for the intro and outro, it al...

Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening driv...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

Marie-Claire Saindons Keeping Time for Joy spiegelt die Freude im Text der zeitgenössischen Schriftstellerin Sarah Windle in diesem erbaulichen Stück wider. Volkstümliche skalierte Melodien, die durch...

Dieses dreisätzige Werk, das den "Schwestern überall" gewidmet ist, kombiniert eine Reihe von Themen mit der Poesie von Sara Teasdale. Der erste Satz, "Sister of the Sky" (Schwester des Himmels), konz...

Composed in 2016 for the Maîtrise de Radio France, 'Ce n'était pas nous' for upper voices sets short poems by Antoine Thiollier which are at once playful and serious.

Here's a marvelous music history lesson! This clever a cappella choral features snippets of well-known madrigal texts and music, mixed in with an original contrapuntal theme.

Three-part women's and men's ensembles will excel with this majestic a cappella concert work. Joyful melodic motives are passed from voice to voice, and percussive handclaps bridge varied sections of...

Three-part women's and men's ensembles will excel with this majestic a cappella concert work. Joyful melodic motives are passed from voice to voice, and percussive handclaps bridge varied sections of...

An initial descending line opens up into lush four-part harmony in this contemporary a cappella concert work. Meditative and earnest, Sally Albrecht's prayerful text setting will inspire and uplift yo...

An initial descending line opens up into lush four-part harmony in this contemporary a cappella concert work. Meditative and earnest, Sally Albrecht's prayerful text setting will inspire and uplift yo...